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 * The Second Amendment**

What is it? The right to bear arms.

Are their any state laws? Yes, you need to have a permit to own a weapon of fire arms.(Guns)

What does this amendment allow for? It allows an individuial to own a weapon for protection.

Here is some info from http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment02/

Second Amendment - Bearing Arms**
 * U.S. Constitution: Second Amendment

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,taken away.
 * Amendment Text | Annotations**

Some people in the past have abused these rights and some have gotton them taken away.


 * MISUSE AND YOU LOSE!**

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The concept of a "well regulated Militia" is somewhat foreign to 20th century America, but it is central to the meaning of the Second Amendment. At the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted, each of the states had its own "militia" — a military force comprised of ordinary citizens serving as part-time soldiers. Most of the adult male population was required by state law to enlist in the militia. The militia was "well regulated" in the sense that its members were subject to various legal requirements. They were, for example, required to report for training several days a year, to supply their own equipment for militia use, including guns and horses, and sometimes to engage in military exercises away from home. The purpose of the militia was expressed in the Second Amendment — to assure "the security of a free State" — against threats from without (invasions) and threats from within (rebellions, riots, etc.). The militia was not, as some gun control opponents have claimed, simply another word for the armed citizenry. It was an //organized// military force, "well regulated" by the state governments. Noah Webster's Dictionary of 1828 defines militia as: "...the able bodied men organized into companies, regiments and brigades, with officers of all grades, and required by law to attend military exercises on certain days only, but at other times left to pursue their usual occupations."
 * The original intent of the 2nd Amendment**:

Anti-Federalists saw the state militia as an effective counterpoint to the power of the standing army but they were concerned that the federal government had excessive power over the militia. They argued that the Constitution left the arming of the state militia exclusively to the federal government. During the Virginia ratification debates, Patrick Henry asked: "When this power is given to Congress without limits or boundary, how will your militia be armed?" The Second Amendment was written in response to this Anti-Federalist concern. The Amendment affirms that the keeping and bearing of arms in a well regulated Militia of the states is a right of the people, not dependent on the sudden idea/desire of the federal government. **The original intent of the Second Amendment, therefore, was to prevent the federal government from passing laws that would disarm the state militia.**

You may think as a well regulated malitia as the National Guard, but they are not the same. It wrongly defines the word Militia. It is the states job to maintain a Militia. This is not only inconsistent with the statements of America's Founders and the concept of individual rights.

Thomas Jefferson said, "No free man shall be debarred the use of arms." Patrick Henry said, "The great object is, that every man be armed." Richard Henry Lee wrote that, "to preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms." Thomas Paine noted, "arms . . . discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property." Samuel Adams warned that: "The said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."
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